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The hustle and bustle of fashion constantly gives me a rush; a good feeling. Like this is where I’ve wanted to be my whole life. Except, instead of doing it, I’m okay with just writing about it. The Chriselle Factor‘s blog touches upon the chaotic nature of Fashion Week. Generally, it occurs in all places including:

New York

London

Los Angeles

Tokyo

Creatively showing off the snowy weather in New York while rocking fashion-forward styles is what it’s all about. The real interest here is to see how weather conflicts or works with certain styles and clothes.

In the blog post by Chriselle, she models a simple outfit for the winter, but so fashion-forward, it actually makes you think twice about why it isn’t easy to dress like this at all times. The key is to find clothes and accessories that will complement the weather and is simple.

Sunny winter day in New York City calls for sunglasses, a sweater dress, and a cute Celine bag. Also, leather is in style. A leather shirt with a cheetah print shawl in contrast to the weather will make the print pop out and direct people’s eyes to the shawl.

The picture to the right is showing a model coming right off the runway from Fashion Week in NYC. Her face, in my opinion, is calm and collected and nothing like the frantic rush of being on runways and changing clothes to showcase beautiful, and sometimes ugly clothes.

Fashion is about working with what you have. The real target is to be happy with yourself and your surroundings. After that, you find things you are comfortable wearing. Essentially, that is fashion. It doesn’t have to look good to everyone else. All you have to do is find what you think is beautiful and make it your own. Seriously.

My class participated in this cool scavenger hunt for our school. Seton Hall is pretty interesting. Being a senior here, it was quite exciting to work with my friend, Janay, and find things about my the students and professors here.

Blog posts are a thing of wonder. One can write what they please, post it, and readers can leave comments on their perspective/opinions. I’m not one of those. Truthfully, after reading a post, I’ll piece together an opinion and leave it in my head. Some people, however, choose to voice that opinion. The wonders of blog posts.

The Huffington Post’s Comment Policy (here), requires an account with the site. Moderators, a team of staff and community, patrol the site in order to keep the blogs a civil and enjoyable place to be. Everyone is welcome, but many comments are pre-moderated and it is encouraged to be yourself and not pretend to be someone else. There are also ways to “favorite” comments, follow other bloggers, and flag abusive or inappropriate comments to further help the site with moderating. These rules and regulations definitely influence the nature of the bloggers who comment and it can be clearly seen by the content and intelligence of some comments, this site is for serious opinions and discussion.

In an article by Amy Hatch of the Huffington Post about violent speech (Words Mean Something), she retells the story of how her 8-year-old child was asking to buy an app from the Apple store to “buy a gun to kill some people” in her game. Hatch goes on to explain that she found talking to her child about violence was even more difficult than it would have been to talk about sex. The main point of the article was to literally watch out for the things you say, such as “Someone kill me!” or “Ugh, I could just kill someone today.” Becoming an example for children is much easier than speaking on it.

As I read the article, I formed my opinion, as usual, and found that I thought Hatch was right. We live in a society today where violence is plastered all over the media and to become examples of peaceful human beings is the right way to go.

One comment that caught my eye was about parenting, and how Hatch was aware of her own part in how her child was speaking and behaving. The blogger also explained that accepting responsibility for her’s and her child’s actions. The comment reflected on knowing when to “blame it on yourself” instead of blaming it on everyone else. I found this comment to be reflective of the Huffington Post and its content. It was intelligently written and stirred discussion among other bloggers who commented.

The next post I found was on Gizmodo (here) about the Superbowl Ads. Actually it was just a post of the videos and a comment next to it describing the commercial in a somewhat nice way. The comments on the post, however were not so nice. One person posted something about Beyonce’s halftime show, which had nothing to do with the blog post. Using foul words to describe the performance, they went on to complain about how she is not relevant and did horribly and should “go to f***ing hell.” Well. I can give you many reasons why that post was harmful, but I think you can certainly get that on your own.

Gizmodo’s comment policy is very different from The Huffington Post’s. In their FAQ (here), anyone who is invited by Gizmodo or a friend is allowed to comment. This rule right here changes everything because you don’t need to create an account for that. You can also comment anonymously, which usually brings out the worst in people. The harmful comment I spoke on above was, not surprisingly, anonymous. Maybe Gizmodo, although a more relaxed site from The Huffington Post, should revise these rules so that people think twice before writing a mean, foul comment.